Opportunities can be once in a lifetime.
Sometimes there is one moment that should have been taken advantage of.
Unfortunately, fear and even nervousness can be factored into why some people may not take advantage of the situation.
In many friendships there is usually one person who has more feelings than the other person.
This is very normal, but when does the time come that their feelings can be expressed without any judgement. Sometimes that moment never comes, but if it does that is when it should be taken advantage of. In “Summer,” by David Updike, Homer does not go for what he wants; although he has the opportunity to, he ends up in the same place that he begins.
Homer saw Sandra as more than friends, but he did not know if he should …show more content…
In “Summer,” Homer noticed Sandra, “ambling down the path, stepping lightly between the stones in her bare feet…” (164). As a young male, when Homer noticed the little things that Sandra was doing, it showed that she is not just a friend. Males usually do not pay attention to the little things that females do. If a male and female are just friends they usually just hang out and the male never looks beyond what is right in front of him. They do not see the type of lipstick a female wears or if they went to get a new haircut, but Homer noticed. He saw that, “she did this everyday” (165). Since he looked at Sandra as more than friends he watched her every day at the same time when she went to tan. Every time Sandra went outside he was there. This implies that he did have feelings for her, but he did not know if he should try and move forward. He questioned himself, “Was it that he …show more content…
The moment that he had been waiting for, “the conjunction of circumstances that, through the steady exertion of will, minor adjustments of time and place, he had often tried to induce, never happened” (167). Homer had been waiting for a moment alone with her, so that he could show his feeling for her; but that moment had not occurred. He wanted to just tell her and just hope that she may feel the same way for him. The moment of being together side by side, or even in each other arms would have confirmed what he felt. When the moment finally happened, “there was a fleeting, shuddering moment before he stepped through the woods to his cabin and she went to her bed that he recognized, in a distant sort of way, as the moment of truth. But to touch her, or kiss her, seemed suddenly incongruous, absurd” (167). Homer had finally received the moment that he was waiting for, but he froze. The moment was perfect it was just Sandra and himself, but it did not feel right to him. He realized that she is just a friend, nothing more. He did not want anything else from her than to be friends. He waited all of this time to make a move on Sandra, and when the opportunity came he backed out. He went to into his trip with Sandra having feeling for her not knowing if she felt the same way, and ending the trip the same
Sometimes there is one moment that should have been taken advantage of.
Unfortunately, fear and even nervousness can be factored into why some people may not take advantage of the situation.
In many friendships there is usually one person who has more feelings than the other person.
This is very normal, but when does the time come that their feelings can be expressed without any judgement. Sometimes that moment never comes, but if it does that is when it should be taken advantage of. In “Summer,” by David Updike, Homer does not go for what he wants; although he has the opportunity to, he ends up in the same place that he begins.
Homer saw Sandra as more than friends, but he did not know if he should …show more content…
In “Summer,” Homer noticed Sandra, “ambling down the path, stepping lightly between the stones in her bare feet…” (164). As a young male, when Homer noticed the little things that Sandra was doing, it showed that she is not just a friend. Males usually do not pay attention to the little things that females do. If a male and female are just friends they usually just hang out and the male never looks beyond what is right in front of him. They do not see the type of lipstick a female wears or if they went to get a new haircut, but Homer noticed. He saw that, “she did this everyday” (165). Since he looked at Sandra as more than friends he watched her every day at the same time when she went to tan. Every time Sandra went outside he was there. This implies that he did have feelings for her, but he did not know if he should try and move forward. He questioned himself, “Was it that he …show more content…
The moment that he had been waiting for, “the conjunction of circumstances that, through the steady exertion of will, minor adjustments of time and place, he had often tried to induce, never happened” (167). Homer had been waiting for a moment alone with her, so that he could show his feeling for her; but that moment had not occurred. He wanted to just tell her and just hope that she may feel the same way for him. The moment of being together side by side, or even in each other arms would have confirmed what he felt. When the moment finally happened, “there was a fleeting, shuddering moment before he stepped through the woods to his cabin and she went to her bed that he recognized, in a distant sort of way, as the moment of truth. But to touch her, or kiss her, seemed suddenly incongruous, absurd” (167). Homer had finally received the moment that he was waiting for, but he froze. The moment was perfect it was just Sandra and himself, but it did not feel right to him. He realized that she is just a friend, nothing more. He did not want anything else from her than to be friends. He waited all of this time to make a move on Sandra, and when the opportunity came he backed out. He went to into his trip with Sandra having feeling for her not knowing if she felt the same way, and ending the trip the same